Importance of Teaching in Preschool Discussion

1- Best Practices / Favorite Theorist

For your POST:

What theorist did you choose and why?

What additional information did you find out about him as a person?

What additional information did you find out about his theory?

How will his theory influence your future teaching practices?

This assignment supports course learning outcome 1 and student learning objectives 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7. I would like for you to do further research on this theorist … such as online, articles, etc

2-Subjective Versus Objective

Learning how to carefully observe and then write a useful anecdote starts with knowing the difference between a subjective description and an objective description. Make sure you know the difference between Subjective and Objective.

Post: For this post you will need to locate a short video clip on Youtube (www.youtube.com) that focuses on young children (Please make sure this video is appropriate.)

Here’s an example of the type of video clip I am looking for:child playing in sand

Choose your own video clip and watch it. Post a SUBJECTIVE observation full of personal opinion, judgment phrases, etc. Be sure to give the link to the video clip you used.

This assignment supports course learning outcome 2 and student learning objective 8.

3- Describe the reasons why it is important for early childhood teachers to know about child development.

This assignment supports course learning outcome 1 and student learning objectives 1 & 4.

Instructions

Attachments cannot be more than 1 MB and must be in Word, RTF, or PDF format. Please provide thoughtful responses to the journal question. You are expected to produce college-level work. Submit this assignment in an essay type format with an intro/body/conclusion and you will need to provide one citation or reference in the response. A one to two sentence paragraph for an intro/body/conclusion isn’t sufficient.